116.050. Initiative and referendum petitions, requirements. - Missouri Statutes

Initiative and referendum petitions, requirements.

116.050. 1. Initiative and referendum petitions filed under theprovisions of this chapter shall consist of pages of a uniform size. Eachpage, excluding the text of the measure, shall be no larger than eight andone-half by fourteen inches. Each page of an initiative petition shall beattached to or shall contain a full and correct text of the proposedmeasure. Each page of a referendum petition shall be attached to or shallcontain a full and correct text of the measure on which the referendum issought.

2. The full and correct text of all initiative and referendumpetition measures shall:

(1) Contain all matter which is to be deleted included in its properplace enclosed in brackets and all new matter shown underlined;

(2) Include all sections of existing law or of the constitution whichwould be repealed by the measure; and

(3) Otherwise conform to the provisions of article III, section 28and article III, section 50 of the constitution and those of this chapter.

(L. 1980 S.B. 658, A.L. 1997 S.B. 132)